Kenya: It Wasn’t Booze, It Was Methanol – Minister. By Simon Ndonga. allafrica.com. May 08, 2014. A high percentage of industrial chemical methanol is believed to have been the killer in the brew that has so far claimed 80 lives in various parts of the country since Monday. Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia told Capital […]
Sugar Cane Liquor with Methanol Kills 24 in Honduras.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com. July 11, 2012. Honduran health authorities confirmed Tuesday that 24 people died over the past two weeks in this Central American country from drinking aguardiente, a liquor distilled from sugar cane, that had been adulterated with methanol.The head of epidemicological security for the Health Secretariat, Tomas […]
Sugar Cane Liquor with Methanol Kills 24 in Honduras.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com. July 11, 2012. Honduran health authorities confirmed Tuesday that 24 people died over the past two weeks in this Central American country from drinking aguardiente, a liquor distilled from sugar cane, that had been adulterated with methanol.The head of epidemicological security for the Health Secretariat, Tomas […]
Fresh hooch case in Krishna, one loses vision, five critical. indiatimes.com. Jan. 03, 2012. Even before the tribals of Poratanagar could recover from the hooch tragedy which claimed 17 lives, 14 people from another tribal hamlet in Mylavaram mandal fell seriously ill on Monday after consuming spurious liquor on New Year’s day. Read previous notice: Bootleg […]
Fresh hooch case in Krishna, one loses vision, five critical. indiatimes.com. Jan. 03, 2012. Even before the tribals of Poratanagar could recover from the hooch tragedy which claimed 17 lives, 14 people from another tribal hamlet in Mylavaram mandal fell seriously ill on Monday after consuming spurious liquor on New Year’s day. Read previous notice: Bootleg […]
Toxic Liquor Leaves Village of Widows. Naharnet. December 19, 2011. They are already calling it the "widow village." In the space of just a few short days, the close-knit community of Sangrampur in eastern India — along with a number of smaller surrounding villages — has been devastated by a case of mass poisoning from […]
Toxic Liquor Leaves Village of Widows. Naharnet. December 19, 2011. They are already calling it the "widow village." In the space of just a few short days, the close-knit community of Sangrampur in eastern India — along with a number of smaller surrounding villages — has been devastated by a case of mass poisoning from […]
Bootleg liquor kills 143 people in eastern India.By BIKAS DAS, Associated Press. December 15, 2011. Bootleg liquor containing toxic methanol killed 143 people and sickened dozens more who drank the cheap, illicit brew bought at small shops in eastern India, officials said Thursday. Police arrested 10 suspected bootleggers. Emergency medical teams rushed to the village […]
Bootleg liquor kills 143 people in eastern India.By BIKAS DAS, Associated Press. December 15, 2011. Bootleg liquor containing toxic methanol killed 143 people and sickened dozens more who drank the cheap, illicit brew bought at small shops in eastern India, officials said Thursday. Police arrested 10 suspected bootleggers. Emergency medical teams rushed to the village […]
Methanol poisoning kills at least 61 homeless people in Sudan. sudantribune.com. June 22, 2011. At least 61 homeless people between the ages of 13-25 have died almost simultaneously in different parts of the Sudanese capital over the last three days after they drank a combination of methanol and other toxic substances.The Sudanese Ministry of Interior […]
Illegal banana gin ‘kills 80’ in Uganda . bbcnews. April 23, 2010. Some 80 people have died in Uganda after drinking illegal home-made banana gin laced with methanol, a health official says.Patrick Tusiime said so many people had died because relatives did not want to admit that people had been drinking the gin, known as […]
Methanol May Impair Your Vision for Good. By James William Tamale..monitor.co.ug. 08/10/09. Recent reports in both the print and electronic media have highlighted the deaths caused by unscrupulous people lacing alcohol with methanol with over 20 people confirmed dead in various parts of central Uganda. The major culprit is alcohol packed in sachets and sold […]
Methanol poisoning and long term sequelae – a six years follow-up after a large methanol outbreak. Raido Paasma , Knut Erik Hovda and Dag Jacobsen .BMC Clinical Pharmacology 2009, 9:5.Full text. Abstract:Mass poisonings with methanol are rare but occur regularly both in developed and in developing countries. Data from the poisoning episodes are often published, […]
Methanol poisoning damage is likely permanent. Reuters Health, April 2, 2009. Damage from methanol poisoning appears to be "irreversible," according to a follow-up report on several people exposed to the poison in September 2001. [ See ]
Pakistan alcohol tragedy kills 22. BBC News. Sept.21,2007 More than 40 people are ill after drinking the liquor.At least 22 people have died after drinking illegally brewed alcohol in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said. [ See ]